| JANUARY | ResourceNet International has reached an agreement to acquire Carpenter Paper Company, Grand Rapids, MI; Seaman Paper Company, Detroit, MI, and Kirk Paper Corp., Downey, CA. |
| FEBRUARY | Mail-Well Envelope Corp., Englewood, CO and American Envelope Co., Chicago, IL, have merged to form American Mail-Well Envelope. |
| Richard Lewis Paper Corp., subsidiary of Gould Paper Corp., announced the formation of a Rotary Forms Division. | |
| Scott Paper Co. will establish operations in Indonesia. Scott entered into a joint venture with Shanghai Paper Corp. | |
| MARCH | Union Camp Corp., Wayne, NJ, has signed a letter of intent to sell its retail bag operations to Duro Bag Manufacturing Company, Ludlow, KY. |
| Noranda Forest Inc., Toronto, Canada, has agreed to purchase Cross Pointe Paper Corp. from Pentair Inc., St. Paul, MN, for approximately $200 million. | |
| IP has announced it will consolidate the company’s packaging product technology functions by August 1996. Some of the centers to be merged with the relocation facility in Cincinnati are: Middletown, NY; Mobile, AL; and Raleigh, NC. | |
| Scott signed agreements for the sale of Scott Health Care to Molnlycke AB of Sweden, its domestic foodservice business to The Fonda Group, Inc. and the foodservice business in the U.K. to Duni Limited. | |
| APRIL | Alco Standard Corp. announced the acquisition of DepPapel del Noreste, S.A. de C.V. of Monterey, Mexico. |
| Nissco, Bonita Springs, FL, a marketing organization of independent distributors and major suppliers announced it will become a distributor-owned and driven group . . . Nissco Janitorial/Chemical Group, Inc. and Nissco Paper/Packaging Group, Inc. | |
| MAY | Hudson Valley Paper Co., Albany, NY, announced acquisition of the Syracuse Division of the former Niagara Paper Co. The purchase came after several months of negotiations with the Millcraft Acquisition Company of Cleveland, OH, which recently purchased all of Niagara Paper Company’s assets. |
| JUNE | Astro-Valcour Inc. (AVI), announced that it has agreed to acquire the Microfoam division of Ametek, Inc. |
| Appleton Papers Inc., Appleton, WI, signed a binding agreement to purchase the Stora Newton Falls paper mill in Newton Falls, NY, from the mill’s parent company, Stora AB, Stockholm, Sweden for $60 million. | |
| Hill & Markes, Amsterdam, NY, acquired Shoemaker Paper Co., Latham, NY. | |
| AUGUST | The merger of Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Scott Paper Company . . . the new company will operate under the Kimberly-Clark name. |
| Crabar Business Systems Corp., Dayton, OH, has acquired the custom business division of Shade/Allied Inc. | |
| SEPTEMBER | WWF Paper Corp., Bala Cynwyd, PA, recently acquired T. Havill Inc., Montreal, Canada. |
| Poly-Pak Industries, Melville, NY acquired Levron Packaging, Farmingdale, NY. | |
| OCTOBER | Perkins Paper Inc., Tauton, MA, acquired Frank Paper Co., West Springfield, MA. The purchase closely follows the acquisition of G&S Paper by Perkins. |
| Willmann Paper Company and Impressions Congress Papers, both of New York, have joined to form Willmann Impressions. | |
| Crown Vantage, Oakland, CA began operating as an independent company in late August, following the spin-off of its mills and product lines from James River. | |